Optimistically determined to unite disagreeable Americans; the ones who disagree with political and corporate misconduct, unethical practices of the media, and the misguiding influence of the status quo. While we're at it, let's decrease the gap between the rich and poor.

Friday, March 30, 2007

Where Did We Go Wrong?

(Note: I initially wrote the linked article and mistakenly referred to Generation X insteadof Y. Not surprisingly, I offended an entire generation of people because of the vague time frames each generation covers. I apologize and thank the many readers that quickly corrected me.)

Raising a generation of slackers may just be the legacy left behind by a retiring Baby Boomer population. No one really wants to say it out loud, but by giving them everthing they wanted except direction and parenting, Generation Y got a bad deal from their parents. I explore this edgy little phenomenon here.

Most parents aren't going to like what I've written, but if they look at them selves and their children honestly, society has a chance of recovering.

2 comments:

Annoyed X & Yer NZ
said...

I read with interest your article titled "Is Generation X ready to take over from Baby Boomers" in which you state that by parenting as friends instead of as slackers that you have brought up a litigious generation. Secondly, you mention on your website that you gave birth to a generation of slackers. Then I find that you were actually talking about Y?

I find it amusing, because everything you mention to me, as a Gen Xer and no doubt to a Y, seems to describe the Baby Boomer Generation. Brought up after the world wars and after the depression, the baby boomers were brought up thinking they were the most special people on the planet. As a consequence of that, Gen X & Y has to see you insult them, by calling them litigious, and slackers? Sure you may have introduced women's lib, and stopped racial segregation, but you also:Went to war with Iraq - for whatever reason, you'll be gone and we'll be cleaning it up Introduced AIDsIn UK commonwealth - introduced compulsory student fees when you got them freeIn UK commonwealth - introduced compulsory superannuation for the GenXers and Ys, yet we are paying for BB superannuation despite BB fees university feesQuite happily polluted the earth - leaving it for us to fixWill live longer - and we have to pay for itMade Barbara Streisand famousSurely you are not so arrogant as to honestly believe that your generation is faultless? Perhaps, with some research that is based on something, you may realise that gen X believes in individual responsibility, and in a work ethic. Your generation has made the world what it is today, when you die, we have to clean up your mess.By the way - not every nation on the planet is litigious. Genberation X outside of North America wouldn't dream of suing - that's seen as being part of the American culture. By the way - your generation has introduced the terms of ADD and ADHD. We simply have top live with it. Thanks.

Annoyed...Thanks for the comments. First of all, I'm a Cusper or someone on the fringe between the Boomers and the Xers. These are my observations of life in American culture, not UK Commonwealth, which I know very little about.

This article also places blame on the boomer generation, not just the x and y's. As with all things there are exceptions and you must be one of them who is contrary to my observations. This was not intended as a personal attack, but rather to bring the situation out into the open for discussion.

About Me

Although public relations has historically been considered a practice used to fool more of the people than your competition does, I think PR can be used to promote ethical reform in media, business, government and society, as well as in protecting our Constitutional rights from being whored out by the turn of a phrase. I got my degree in public relations to use the power and practices of PR and communications to promote a return to honesty in our everyday interactions. Whether between spouses or nations is irrelevant. My ideas and methods are unique, creative and sometimes even radical.
I'm a communicator and a writer. At pickumber-writes I'll write about things I think need to be discussed, debated and possibly changed. As a collective society, if we aren't communicating, we aren't going to make it.